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Bug 158674 - Upgrade netbeans and not reinstall
Summary: Upgrade netbeans and not reinstall
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 108684
Alias: None
Product: installer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All All
: P2 blocker with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: issues@installer
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Reported: 2009-02-17 14:15 UTC by ejvyas
Modified: 2009-03-21 11:38 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description ejvyas 2009-02-17 14:15:24 UTC 
Every time there is a new version of Netbeans released, a new software needs to be installed on the system. This is
ridiculous. If you check other Java based IDEs like Eclipse, MyEclipse, IntelliJ all IDEs use the push technology to
upgrade the IDE and not install a new version. New version of netbeans needs to be downloaded separately by the use (who
has to be aware that such a version is released), installed and settings have to be imported over. There is still a lot
of confusion over such method and it is subject to a lot of discussion on the forums eg:
http://forums.netbeans.org/ptopic4949.html

I believe the use needs to have a feature where he can directly upgrade and not install in a clean directory. It leads
to multiple stale versions of Netbeans being installed on the poor developers PC
Comment 1 dlipin 2009-03-21 11:38:54 UTC 
I`m sorry I haven`t done that earlier. We have already track similar issue 108684 so I close this one as the duplicate.
ejvyas, puce - please add your votes for Issue 108684, sorry for extra work.

Thanks,
Dmitry

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 108684 ***